On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Greg Ungerer
<gregunge...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On 12/15/2012 07:48 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 12/14/2012 06:04:51 AM, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>> Somebody got one of my images to boot under aranym but they had to patch
>>>> the kernel fairly extensively to add the emulated device support that
>>>> emulator provided. It doesn't emulate real devices the way qemu does,
>>>> but qemu doesn't fully emulate the processor (just coldfire in
>>>> mainline)...
>>>
>>> I use aranym for testing m68k. Though I don't really pound to heavily
>>> on the devices. I really only cross-compile small systems for testing
>>> on it.
>>
>> What kernel config do you use for aranym? I don't see an an aranym entry
>> in
>> arch/m68k/configs, and I stopped using it precisely because it required
>> several large patches to add emulated device support for everything from
>> serial console to block devices. (There was a kernel upgrade, it broke,
>> I cut a release without it. Pretty much the same reason I stopped using
>> squashfs for a year or so until it finally got merged.)
>
> arch/m68k/configs/atari_defconfig
The normal defconfig (aka multi_defconfig) should also work.
> AranyM is an Atari emulator. As far as I know all the special device
> support has been merged into mainline now.
Indeed, as of v2.6.39.
Even without that support, an Atari kernel should work (albeit slower), except
for networking.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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